The Ghana Police Service is set to significantly strengthen its cybercrime investigations after receiving advanced digital forensic tools from the Czech Republic, giving investigators the ability to retrieve deleted messages, analyse your smartphones and track digital evidence in criminal cases.
The equipment and software was donated to the Cybercrime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) as part of ongoing cybersecurity cooperation between Ghana and Czechia.
The package includes specialized forensic hardware and the MOBILedit Forensic software suite developed by the Czech technology company, Compelson.
How it works
Simply, the software allows investigators to examine mobile phones and smart devices in ways ordinary users cannot.
Once a device is legally seized during investigations, forensic experts can connect it to the system and extract large amounts of digital information including call logs, SMS messages, WhatsApp chats, Telegram conversations, images, videos, contacts, browser history and application data.
What makes the technology especially powerful is its ability to recover some deleted information that may still exist inside a device’s storage system.
